Example sentences of "from [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Astor 's North-West Fur Company had a small fleet of sailing ships on Lake Erie , transporting furs from warehouses on the Canadian shore to ports at the east end of the lake . |
| 2 | If in no other sense than economic , the world 's focus had switched from East to West , from Greenwich to the Date Line , from Atlantic to Pacific . |
| 3 | Secondly , they can be a result of wider journalistic efforts either from contacts with the police , or from interviewing people associated with the rape in some indirect way , either near the time of the offence , or the trial , or even , in a few cases , some time later . |
| 4 | There is independent evidence for a change to a more oceanic climate with increased precipitation and strong winds at 4300 — 4000 B.P. ( see Birks and Williams , 1983 ) , possibly resulting from shifts in the Atlantic storm tracks due to changing positions and strengths of the Azores high and Iceland low . |
| 5 | In 1670 Wigston contained 161 households , including forty-seven that were exempted from payment of the hearth tax on the grounds of poverty . |
| 6 | Only 16·5 per cent of the inhabitants of Pimhill Hundred were exempted from payment of the hearth tax in 1672 , and though many cottagers remained near the poverty line all their lives others prospered a little and moved up the social scale . |
| 7 | The hearth tax returns of Charles II 's reign commonly record 40 per cent or more of the urban population as being exempt from payment of the tax on the grounds of their poverty . |
| 8 | But as they waited to be escorted by police from Waterloo to the concert , they were confronted by a crowd of anti-Nazi protesters . |
| 9 | Lucien had never seen an Ixmaritian priestess in the flesh before , but he recognised her robes from illustrations in the sacred texts of Paradouze : a long green gown of soft linen covered by a darker green tunic of embroidered , stiffened cotton . |
| 10 | Parliament created a limited form of protection from builders with the Defective Premises Act 1972 . |
| 11 | It will benefit from the feedback from experience with the development of the earlier series and with the operation of the 900-MWe units . |
| 12 | The student will learn from experience about the importance of planning , and passing on information . |
| 13 | In the middle and upper classes at least , children stayed " children " for longer ( it was harder for a child to remain so when it was working at the age of 12 or 13 ) ; girls and young women were more shielded from experience outside the home ; parents were , on the whole , stricter and more repressive . |
| 14 | This is even more of a problem : it will not only damage the perspective of the learner but it will also effectively bar him from experience of the full language , since the native users will be unwilling to use it in his presence . |
| 15 | Now the point about this measure is how will the Secretary of State for home affairs , respond to this proposal because this is a re-run , this ten minute ruled bill , of the bill that I introduced last year under the private members bill procedure in which the er junior minister that is currently at the despatch box , said that he accepted the principals of seeking to achieve full registration but felt that the measure itself was premature , premature in that the Home Office were investigating er numbers and matters concerned with the electoral registration and electoral provision , arising from experience at the last general election but I think it was beginning to be accepted that the poll tax had had a serious impact upon the electoral register although there were many other er elements that provided great difficulty . |
| 16 | It is also quite clear that neither clients nor designers can predict precisely how system environment will be affected by the new system.under these circumstances the best strategy appears to be one which provides opportunities for all those involved to learn from experience as the system development and operation progresses . |
| 17 | There are many lessons that UK marketers can learn from experience in the USA in credit marketing . |
| 18 | Similarly , the TUC 's exclusive concentration on learning from experience in the workplace resembles much of what now passes for experience-based learning in progressive adult education elsewhere . |
| 19 | From experience in the majority of cases the valuation report has been ‘ value added ’ . |
| 20 | Many of the gradual developments are likely to come from groups in the Oxford environment . |
| 21 | A passage from Notes Towards the Definition of Culture , relying on ideas from 1913 , hints how the poet was using his anthropological reading when discussing in an anthropological context the difference between imaginative understanding and lived experience . |
| 22 | From notes of the meeting and subsequent correspondence it is clear that Jacques was unequivocal in his view that the LEA evening institutes could develop as the ‘ natural home for adult education activity ’ and he wished the District 's Chapter III courses to be accommodated wherever appropriate within the LEA 's existing institutions . |
| 23 | The mental progression from creativity to the perception of beauty is the essence of the peak experience . |
| 24 | Once Lothar had again spurned his brothers ' messengers , and come southwards from Aachen to the Moselle , apparently seeking battle , the scene was set for a final showdown . |
| 25 | The King can not be exonerated from responsibility for the massacre ; he signed the instructions and failed to punish those who were involved . |
| 26 | Given that the biogenic character of aggression is established it does not exculpate other sources of influence , namely social and psychological , from responsibility for the attacks people make upon one another . |
| 27 | Even in such limited form , however , this defence , like the defence of act of a stranger , shifts the basis of the tort from responsibility for the creation of an exceptional risk to culpable failure to control that risk . |
| 28 | They saw a potential danger in the ILP releasing itself from responsibility for the failings of the late Labour Government . |
| 29 | Indeed , the concept of judicial independence is deemed to entail not merely the freedom of judges from responsibility to the political executive , but their active duty to protect the citizen against the political executive or its agents , and to act , in the state 's encounter with members of society , as the defenders of the latter 's rights and liberties … |
| 30 | Dangermond gives several examples in his paper including the use of NETWORK for the allocation of emergency vehicles , optimum routeing of fire engines from garages to the accident scene and the movement of spills through sewers and river networks . |